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	Thomas Crapper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crapper was born in Waterside, Yorkshire (near Thorne), in September 1836 (the exact date is unknown).
		At the age of 14, Crapper was apprenticed to a master plumber in Chelsea, London.
		Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet — credit is usually given to Sir John Harington in 1596, with Alexander Cummings' 1775 toilet regarded as the first of the modern line — but he did popularise it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Crapper (926 words)

	Crappers Quarterly - Thomas Crapper
		Crapper and Co. were invited to supply and install their finest wares for the bathrooms, cloakrooms and indeed all the plumbing and drainage for the project.
		Thomas Crapper was an innovator and inventor and held nine patents but he did not 'invent' the Water Closet, it evolved over many hundreds of years.
		Crapper was a member of the Royal Horticultural Society and he tended his plants in his greenhouses (which still exist) at his last home, 12, Thornsett Road, Anerley, on the border of Kent and London.
	www.crappersquarterly.com /features/tc2.htm (1648 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Thomas Crapper)
		Crapper is an elusive figure: Most people familiar with his name know him as a celebrated figure in Victorian England, an ingenious plumber who invented the modern flush toilet; others believe him to be nothing more than a hoax, the whimsical creation of a satirical writer.
		But although Thomas Crapper may not have been a man of importance to his contemporaries, he was indeed a real person, a sanitary engineer in 19th century London who ran his own plumbing concern, who took out several patents on plumbing-related devices, and whose name can still be spotted on manhole covers around London.
		Although Thomas Crapper took out nine plumbing patents between 1881 and 1896, none of these patents was for the "valveless water-waste preventer" he is often credited with having invented.
	www.snopes.com /business/names/crapper.asp (396 words)

	Crappers Quarterly - Happy Crapper Day
		Thomas Crapper was born in Yorkshire in 1836, into a family of modest means.
		Crapper invented the W.C., and that the vulgar word for faeces is a derivative of his name, but neither of these beliefs have been proven.
		Thomas Crapper died in 1910 and is buried near the grave of the cricketer, W.G. Grace, in Elmers End Cemetery.
	www.crappersquarterly.com /features/tc.htm (665 words)

	History of Thomas Crapper - Plumber, Entrepreneur & By Royal Appointment.
		Thomas Crapper was born in Waterside, a hamlet near the Yorkshire town of Thorne, in 1836.
		Crapper & Co. were invited to supply and install their finest wares for the bathrooms, cloakrooms and indeed all the plumbing and drainage for the project.
		Crapper enjoyed the fruits of his labours and acquiredthe trappings of wealth: property, land and chattels.
	www.thomas-crapper.com /history04.asp (670 words)

	On-line: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
		Thomas' dad was a sailor, and his four brothers were dockers (longshoremen), but he must have been unhappy at home, for at the age of eleven, according to Reyburn, he walked 165 miles to London and got himself apprenticed to a plumber in Chelsea.
		Crapper was a competent and successful plumber, but his reputation in the history of British sanitation rests on the claim that he invented the syphonic flush.
		Thomas Crapper died on 27 January 1910, and was buried in Elmers End cemetery, near to famous cricketer WG Grace.
	www2.exnet.com /1995/11/01/science/science.html (1286 words)

	Andy Gibbons has the poop on Crapper
		Gibbons, an ex-professor of library science, is the official historian of the Thomas Crapper Society — a 100-member worldwide group dedicated to the study of the successful English plumber and businessman who, at about the turn of the century, gave the world the flush toilet.
		Crapper, Gibbons points out, didn’t actually invent the toilet as we know it today, rather he invented the automatic flush device (including the float) in the upper part of the toilet.
		Crapper left home at the age of 10 and walked 150 miles to London, where he became an apprentice plumber.
	www.outwestnewspaper.com /rsj10.html (457 words)

	PLUMBING HISTORY - Sir Thomas Crapper
		But with this article we intend to replace myth with fact, for we have found a cadre of Thomas Crapper scholars who have made it their life's work to prove that Crapper is more than just a slang term brought home by the World War I doughboys.
		Crapper did have a successful career in the plumbing industry in England from 1861 to 1904.
		Thomas Crapper did serve as the royal sanitary engineer for many members of England's royalty, but contrary to popular myth, he was never knighted, and thus isn't entitled to use the term "Sir" before his name.
	www.plumbingsupply.com /pmthomas.html (968 words)

	Antique Loo's from the Thomas Crapper Company Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crapper's inventiveness was well known; he registered a number of patents, one for example being the "Disconnecting Trap" which became an essential underground drains fitting for domestic properties.
		Crapper & Co. remained by Royal Appointment to Edward when he became King and was also warranted by George V, as Prince of Wales and again as King.
		Thomas Crapper died in 1910 and is buried near the grave of the cricketer, W.G.Grace, in Elmer's End Cemetary.
	www.jldr.com /crapperloo.html (1222 words)

	THOMAS CRAPPER - "Flushed With Success" (Chicago Tribune: W. Ecenbarger)(1993)
		The end result is that Thomas Crapper, the man who did more than any other to clear the air of the Western world, is in danger of being forgotten.
		Thomas Crapper, plumber extrordinaire, inventor of the Valveless Water-Waste Preventer, founder of Thomas Crapper and Co., Sanitary Specialties, of Chelsea, London, est.
		Crapper’s genius was a mechanism that allowed water to flush the WC only when necessary.
	cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu /~piwc/w3-history/crapper/crapper-ecenbarger.html (3846 words)

	Toilet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is much debate over who Thomas Crapper was and if he even existed at all.
		It can be concluded that Thomas Crapper was born in September 1836.
		Thomas Crapper was a real man, and he was a plumber.
	www.uwm.edu /People/smheim/final/crapper/crapper.html (187 words)

	Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper: C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas' dad was a sailor, and his brothers were dockers, but he must have been unhappy at home, for at the age of eleven, according to Reyburn, he walked 165 miles to London and got himself apprenticed to a plumber in Chelsea.
		Thomas lived for the last 13 years of his life at 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London, died on 27 January 1910, and was buried in Elmers End cemetery, near to cricketer WG Grace.
		Crapper manhole covers can be found all over the south of England; there are several in Westminster Abbey (one in the cloisters near the deanery is popular for brass-rubbings) and many in the flower-beds both at Sandringham and at Park House next door.
	www.hd.org /Adam/TFTC/C.html (914 words)

	Leicester Chronicler - Thomas Crapper
		Amongst the last surviving examples of the work of Thomas Crapper, the man who contributed much to Victorian sewerage and water delivery systems, are the manhole covers that can still be found in the streets of Oakham in the county of Rutland.
		Thomas Crapper's inventions and career have been the subject of much debate from which has arisen a certain amount of fictitious claims.
		Thomas Crapper was born in Waterside in South Yorkshire in 1837, the son of a steamboat captain.
	www.leicesterchronicler.com /crapper.htm (563 words)

	Questions & Answers: Crap
		Though he achieved a great deal in his lifetime, Mr Crapper was neither the inventor of the flush toilet (as some have said), nor is there any evidence his name is connected with these words other than by an odd coincidence.
		Crapper is American slang, which dates from the 1920s, and is an obvious enough extension of the older noun and verb.
		A lot of the confusion about Crapper the man is due to a tongue-in-cheek book of 1969 by Wallace Reyburn, Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper, which told a lot of falsehoods about him, and even led some people to conclude that he had never existed.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-cra1.htm (520 words)

	Thomas Crapper
		Andy Gibbons, historian of the International Thomas Crapper Society, and Ken Grabowski, a researcher and author who is writing a book on Crapper’s life.
		Fact: Though we do not know his actual date of birth, we can now say the man Thomas Crapper probably was born in September 1836, since he was baptized the 28th of that month.
		The actual date of Thomas Crapper's death was January 27, 1910.
	www.theplumber.com /crapper.html (767 words)

	Take Our Word For It, page two, Words to the Wise
		I was told that the inventor of the toilet was named John Crapper and that's why we call it a john.
		Crapper was English but the use of john as a euphemism for "privy" is almost exclusively American and it predates Mr.
		As if that weren't enough, the man's name was Thomas Crapper, not John and he merely manufactured flushing toilets, he didn't invent them.
	www.takeourword.com /TOW152/page2.html (1027 words)

	Thomas Crapper, plumbing inventor
		It's the case of Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flushing toilet.
		According to Harlish Goop, the age of the word “crap” (from the Middle English “crappe”, meaning “chaff”), quickly puts paid to that idea, though the name “Crapper” (a variant of “Cropper”) may perchance be related to it, albeit from long ago.
		Crapper was famous for manhole covers as well as loos, and one of his manhole covers is in Westminster Abbey, in the cloisters near the deanery.)
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage03/Thomas-Crapper.html (703 words)

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		Perhaps if more were known about the sensibility of Thomas Crapper, there would be a hue and cry, or at least a hue, for public recognition.
		Crapper took characteristically inventive revenge by ordering six pepperoni pizzas sent to Guano at two A.M. Merry pranks were not Crapper's only forte.
		Polite society gave the nod to Crapper, whose jokes were embroidered with homey, concrete details, over the aristocratic novelist whose humor tended toward the droll and abstract.
	www.williams.edu /English/faculty/rbell/HUMOR/crapperslastjape.html (887 words)

	Toiletology 101: Thomas Crapper Story
		With reference to Thomas Crapper and your site - I have the honour of owning his original company, established 1861.
		Crapper's grave, which should be finished in September.
		All involved with the company earnestly believe that Thomas Crapper would be greatly pleased to see his company prospering in the twenty-first century and creating such fine and exclusive products.
	www.toiletology.com /crapper.shtml (2037 words)

	Thomas Crapper: A Man, A Plan, A Commode!
		Crapper visits the museum from time to time to explain the workings of this household appliance to crowds of bemused visitors.
		A stained glass window has been installed in St. Lawrence's church near Doncaster, England, to honor Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the flush toilet, who was born in nearby Thorne.
		Here is a link to the history of Thomas Crapper, at the web site of the modern-day Thomas Crapper company.
	www.swopnet.com /geo_mileshome/Thomas_Crapper.html (496 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Is the British loo down the pan?
		Shortly after this Sir Thomas Crapper, often mistakenly believed to have invented the flushing lavatory, came on the scene.
		Until Sir Thomas came along, for example, most British cisterns had been fitted with a valve - basically a large plug which, when pulled from its hole by a yank of a chain, sent water into the bowl (this remains the design in many European loos).
		Sir Thomas developed the siphon system, where water is sucked through a U-bend in a pipe before being let into the loo so it cannot leak.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/696115.stm (769 words)

	Shiela Dixon :: Stained Glass Artist :: Midlands, UK :: Crapper - man and myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A silhouette of a lavatory has been incorporated into a stained glass window in the church designed to commemorate local achievementsand, in particular, those of Thomas Crapper, born nearby and credited with inventing the modern flush lavatory.
		Warrack Knott, general manager of Thomas Crapper and Sons, the eponymous firm that was revived last year after a 33-year absence of trading, said: "Most people never mentioned the loo.
		Crapper's gamble paid off and the turning point came when he was invited to supply plumbing for George V at Sandringham.
	www.stgl.co.uk /cache/crapper.html (953 words)

	luxury kitchen and bath fixtures and accessories - International Kitchen and Bath, Asheville, NC
		One of the more popular urban myths today is that Thomas Crapper invented the water closet.
		Thomas Crapper, born in 1836, was a plumber who lived in Chelsea, London.
		In Crapper's time it was very common in England for equipment like water closets to bear the name of the installer, not the manufacturer.
	www.birddecorativehardware.com /tidbits_entry.php?id=2 (174 words)

	Misc/crapper sir thomas
		The data on the history of the water closet is accurate except for the reference to Thomas Crapper.
		The book by Wallace Reyburn, "Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper," does exist, and it is the funniest plumbing hoax since H.L.Mencken wrote his history of the bathroom.
		Crapper, but I shall cite two indications that the book is a joke: (1) the entry on "crap" and "crapping case" in "The Slang Dictionary" (London: Chatto and Windus, revised 1873) and (2) Reyburn's latest book, "Bust-up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra (Prentice-Hall, 1972).
	tafkac.org /misc/crapper_sir_thomas.html (1358 words)

	The crapper
		Popular wisdom attributes this to be derived from Thomas Crapper (1836 - 1904), the supposed inventor of the flush toilet.
		Unfortunately, Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet.
		Crapper is the name that people remember though.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/104050.html (260 words)

	Thomas Crapper, Inventor of the Flush Toilet?? » Genealogy Blog
		Crapper was a real person and a high quality plumber……; he was awarded a number of plumbing patents.
		Advertisements for Crapper and Co. implied that their company was the originator of the flush toilet.
		The words “crap”; and “crapper” were believed to have entered American slang from soldiers returning fron WWI where they had seen the Crapper name on toilet bowls.
	genealogyblog.com /?p=3732 (308 words)

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